Thickset thirty-year-old Jean-Pierre was one. He delivers his sharp, critical observations about human behavior, in French, Spanish, and Kreyol, in a low, bitter growl. He trained as an accountant in Venezuela, but his identity, first and foremost, is as a socialist and a writer, and he sports the de rigueur goatee that proves it. He arrived at the edge of the Darién with his wife and seven-year-old son a few years ago, gathering with about one hundred other migrants at the port town of Turbo, Colombia.
